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National Resource for Infection Control – Technical Issues

National Resource for Infection Control – Technical Issues. Sue Wiseman 1 , Gawesh Jawaheer 2 , Faiza Hansraj 2 , Patty Kostkova 2 Jane Mani-Saada 3 1 Department of Health, U.K. 2 City eHealth Research Centre (CERC) City University, London, U.K. 3 HPA. How does NRIC fit in?.

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National Resource for Infection Control – Technical Issues

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  1. National Resource for Infection Control – Technical Issues Sue Wiseman1, Gawesh Jawaheer2, Faiza Hansraj2, Patty Kostkova2 Jane Mani-Saada3 1 Department of Health, U.K. 2 City eHealth Research Centre (CERC) City University, London, U.K. 3HPA

  2. How does NRIC fit in?

  3. Navigation Tree - Ongoing • Comprehensive A – Z • Conferences • Settings • Clinical Practice • Modes of Transmission • Diseases / Organisms • Policy / Guidance • FAQs

  4. User feedback on NRIC • "Looks as if it might be a useful resource and I have sent a link to my local colleagues." - Theresa Holmes, 1st November 2005 • "I've just had a quick look at your site for the first time and I'm very impressed! I can certainly see that it will be of great help to me and I look forward to seeing its continued development." - Pat Billups, 29th September 2005 • "Just found this site and it is fabulous. Many thanks" – Anonymous Hospital Antibiotic Pharmacist, 1st September 2005 • "Million thanks for developing this site, what a wonderful idea ! and what a great layout too. This is marvellous." - Anonymous, 20th August 2005 • "Just to say I am very impressed with your web-site. It is much appreciated to be able to access relevant literature with ease. Thank you and well done" - Jeff Scott, Nurse Consultant in Health Protection, HPA, 4th August 2005 • "I think this site is a great idea as it will prove so useful." - Kirstine Brooker, Infection Control Nurse, 4th June 2005 • “Many thanks for these newsletters – I find them to be useful in my everyday work.” Tim Durell, Norfolk, 3rd November 2006

  5. New features – New services • Monthly eNewsletter – site updates sent by email to over 1200 professionals – SUBSCRIBE NOW  • New graphical look – Feb 07 issue • Survey of the content & alert service – Feb 07 issue • Conferences/Grants/Meetings • promote your events through NRIC • subscribe to alerts relevant to your profession (launch March 07) • Online submission of new resources • is your paper on NRIC? Submit it in 1 minute • Earn CPD points by online submission of Reviewers Assessments – Automated system to be piloted • Personalised Content Alerts to your interest/profession – launch March 07 • Weblog evaluation – keyword searches – gaps analysis - ongoing

  6. Access to NRIC

  7. Time spent & pages viewed

  8. Do we know what users want? • Starting from the home page a user would have to access at least three pages to view any of the documents held in the library.  • bookmarking pages or entering further into the site via search engines OR • Having NeLI set as the Home Page OR …. ??? Access Logs of the NeLI August 2003 to April 2004

  9. NRIC Access by Region

  10. Results : Most common topics viewed (All users)

  11. Searching/browsing behaviour

  12. Other results • Use of NeLI may be linked to Infectious diseases in the news e.g. hits to legionella pages increased during an outbreak in August 2002 • Average no. pages accessed per visit = 2.11 • Entry page is home page for only 37% sessions so users may be bookmarking or entering via search engines directly to topic pages

  13. Referrers - NRIC

  14. Google, msn searches that led to the AR site between 1 Sep & 31st Jan • Some users have an addiction problem: • Quit antibiotics • Quit working 38883 searches • 7161 included the word alcohol • 12949 antibiotic • 6515 chest • 3467 bacteria • 2085 virus • 1852 acne • 1149 flu • …. And 250 included "cat" • Many users are concerned about animal welfare: • Antibiotics in disadvantaged animals • information on cat colds • Others have an international approach: • swedish acne remedy • mrsa chinese formula

  15. Google, msn searches that led to the AR site between 1 Sep & 31st Jan Some are more economically focussed: • how to get rid of my acne for free • easy money from web survey • Some are quite clear on what they think: • i dont want to take antibiotics • health information makes us ill • Some have seemingly unrelated concerns: • do i need therapy • does male agree to take drugs • will it be cold • how can i get rid of my junk • students attitude towards drugs

  16. New EU Project: SeaLife • Conception and realisation of a Semantic Grid Browser, which links the current Web to the emerging eScience infrastructure • Many grids, few users: make Web servers and services accessible to end usersSemantic Hyperlinks: use ontologies and background knowledge to map web contents to servicesShopping cart: service composition and enactment module • Applications: from cells via tissue to patientsEvidence-based medicinePatent and literature miningMolecuar biology

  17. SeaLife Example: News Article linked to Medical Resources BBC News page that shows an article about an outbreak of Polio in Namibia

  18. SeaLife highlights terms from underlying ontology

  19. SeaLife provides links to NELI, Wikipedia and NaTHNac services.

  20. SeaLife highlights terms from underlying ontology

  21. Users can now access the NaTHNaC pages from NELI site and vice versa

  22. New EU Project: eBug • DG Sanco grant application no. 790589 ‘Development and dissemination of a school antibiotic and hygiene education pack and website across Europe (EBug)’

  23. Ebug Details • Funded by DG SANCO - Budget: 1.889 mil euro (40% contributed by member states, 60% EC contribution = 1.119 mil euro) • Coordinated by HPA (Cliodna McNulty) • Based on the HPA Bug Investigator Project • Associate Partners: • Belgium, UK, France, Spain, Czech Republic, Italy, Greece, Poland, Portugal, Denmark • Collaborating Partners: • Croatia, Finland, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Slovakia, Slovenia • External Audit Committee chaired by Herman Goossens (Belgium)

  24. CeRC (& ex)– Acknowledgements • Steve D’Souza • Gemma Madle • Jane Mani-Saada • Anjana Roy • Sue Wiseman • Julius Weinberg • Mike Catchpole • Faiza Hansraj • David Farrell • Gawesh Jawaheer

  25. Contact Details • NeLI: www.neli.org.uk • NRIC: www.nric.org.uk • Bugs and Drugs: www.antibioticresistance.org.uk • TII: www.trainingininfection.org.uk • SeaLife: http://www.biotec.tu-dresden.de/sealife/ • E-bug: www.e-bug.eu • EMAIL: • Content Info: suewiseman1@yahoo.co.uk • Strategic Info : patty@soi.city.ac.uk • Technical Info : Gawesh.Jawaheer.1@city.ac.uk • General Info : contact@nric.org.uk

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